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ESA's Sentinel-3 Mission Manager Susanne Mecklenburg and Mission Scientist Craig Donlon join the show to tell us more about the Sentinel-3A satellite and its mission

This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Gadi Eidelheit at his The Venus Transit blog.

Search for answers about Stephen Hawking’s new theorem reveals a Scientific American tradition of illustrating the confounding complexity of black holes --

NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD - All 18 of the primary mirrors have been fully installed onto the flight structure of what will become the biggest and most powerful space telescope ever built by humankind - NASA's ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - NASA officials proudly unveiled the pressure vessel for the agency's new Orion capsule destined to launch on the EM-1 mission to the Moon in 2018, after the vehicle arrived at the Kennedy Space Cen...

Even though we are aware of the inevitability of death, we don't expect it to literally strike out of an empty sky.

In orbit around the Earth on board the International Space Station NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured this blue water image in his "Earth Art" series and tweeted it out with this message: " A splash of #EarthArt over th...

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Hundreds of hidden nearby galaxies have been studied for the first time, shedding light on a mysterious gravitational anomaly dubbed the Great Attractor.

Hundreds of hidden nearby galaxies have been studied for the first time, shedding light on a mysterious gravitational anomaly dubbed the Great Attractor.

The U.S. Air Force plans to invest more than $1.2 billion over the next five years to develop a new launch system that would aim to end the Defense Department's reliance on a Russian rocket engine, according to budget do...

A new telescope view has revealed hundreds of galaxies that were previously obscured by the Milky Way's bulk.

Australia's Parkes radio telescope looked through the dust and gas of our Milky Way galaxy to observe 883 galaxies, "a third of which had never been seen before," according to the International Centre for Radio Astronomy...

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Researchers have recreated the universe's primordial soup in miniature format by colliding lead atoms with extremely high energy in the 27 km long particle accelerator, the LHC at CERN in Geneva. The primordial soup is a...

The Obama Administration's final budget request, released Feb. 9, offers $19 billion for NASA in fiscal year 2017, a decrease of $300 million from the agency's final 2016 budget. SpaceNews.com

The Silver Dollar galaxy, NGC 253, is a giant, barred spiral galaxy about 70000 light-years long located in the constellation Sculptor, about 13 million light-years from the Milky Way. It is the brightest member of the S...

Orbiting aboard the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Tim Peake captured flashes of lightning while passing from North Africa, across Turkey and over Russia.

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Evidence of water and a warmer, wetter climate abound on Mars, but did life ever put its stamp on the Red Planet? Rocks may hold the secret. Knobby protuberances of rock discovered by the Spirit Rover in 2008 near the ro...

easyJet says the concept could save up to 50,000 tons of fuel and accompanying CO2 emissions annually.

Two black holes merging can cast off a few percent of their total mass as gravitational waves in just minutes. Sending the final object off on a high-speed journey... --